INTERESTING SITE . MULTIPLE PLATFORMS SUPPORTED. BUT
I 'THINK' IT'S SOFTWARE ONLY SO AS FAR AS HIGH
PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, I THINK IT'S DOWN TO QUADRICS*
ON THE ALPHA TRU-64# AND IBM'S H/W SWITCH ON AIX.

(Gee - two or three of these - It's great to know
that your email is working even if you are not :*)

ALSO:
I also realize that I was not specific enough with my
question......I'm supporting a (Alpha chip) 16 node, 4
cpu (500MHz ea. cpu) per node cluster with a Quadrics
gigaswitch running Tru64 and Quadrics RMS software...
It has cluster management software (allowing us to
finally "forget" NIS), cluster file systems and even a
nifty parallel file system in addition to H/W
controlled RAID.

I keep forgetting
that Sun has only "announced" 64 bit architecture ....
though I thought that some of it was in the field.

quadrics does have a sparc product as follows:

Sparc Product.
In the QM-1 system the node architecture is based on
the UltraSPARC II architecture. The QM-1 uses a quad
processor SMP processing element, combining the
flexibility of the shared memory programming model
on each node, with the scalability of a distributed
memory system. Each processing node has its own IO
system so that IO scales with compute performance.

The use of the standard Solaris software environment
provides access to a wealth of applications software
and tools. QSW software extends the base software to
provide support for parallel programming
acrossdistributed memory. The performance of the Qnet
network means that the system delivers true
supercomputer performance on parallelised codes.
@@@@@@

"Original" question:
Can anyone point me to Sun Microsystem (or other
sparc-chip related data) that outlines the latest
in their 'clustering' technology as well as any sites
that are (also) doing parallel processing on sparc
platforms. ?

Are there any checklists or websites that are looking
at clustering and Beowulf technologies, comparing all
the HW*/ OS# vendors?
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